arXiv Computation and Language November 6, 2026 By Yufei Xue, Yushi Huang, Jiawei Shao, Pingcheng Dong, Yonghao Tan, Shiyao Li, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Jun Zhang

ProQuant: Progressive Quantization-aware Training for Edge MLLMs

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ProQuant introduces a progressive quantization‑aware training framework for low‑bit multi‑modal large language models (MLLMs), addressing the performance drop seen with post‑training quantization at low bit‑widths. The method includes a self‑relabeling scheme to align fine‑tuning data with pre‑training distributions and a progressive block activation mechanism that prioritizes multi‑modal understanding, guided by a vision‑sensitive factor to identify critical layers. Experiments on 2B–8B models show ProQuant outperforms existing techniques, achieving up to a 6.6% accuracy gain in W4A8 Qwen3‑VL‑2B‑Instruct with only ~1% drop from full precision.

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